10 Biggest surprise returns in Royal Rumble history

John Cena's 2008 Royal Rumble is arguably the greatest return of all time
John Cena's 2008 Royal Rumble is arguably the greatest return of all time

#3 Chris Jericho

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Chris Jericho
Chris Jericho

After several feuds around the 2011-12 time period, Chris Jericho was written off WWE TV in order to be on tour with his rock band Fozzy for the rest of the year. After a five-month hiatus though, Jericho eventually made his way back to the WWE, as he entered the 2013 Royal Rumble match as the second entrant and shocking the WWE Universe in the process as well.

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As expected, Jericho came out to a huge pop and lasted about 47 minutes before being eventually eliminated by the first Rumble entrant that year, Dolph Ziggler. This eventually led to a feud against Ziggler, which Jericho resumed for the next few weeks, however, by the time we got to July, Y2J was once again written off WWE TV in order to focus on his musical career.

Jericho's next appearance under WWE wasn't 2014 when he returned for a feud against Dean Ambrose and eventually formed a dream pairing with AJ Styles before turning his back on 'The Phenomenal One'.

With Jericho recently signing with AEW, I think it's for the best if we don't expect him to appear at this year's 30-man Rumble match.

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Edited by Israel Lutete
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